Diffuse flux of galactic neutrinos and gamma rays

Carceller, J. M.; Masip, M.

Publicación: JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2017
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abstract
We calculate the fluxes of neutrinos and gamma rays from interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter in our galaxy. We use EPOS-LHC, SIBYLL and GHEISHA to parametrize the yield of these particles in proton, helium and iron collisions at kinetic energies between 1 and 10(8) GeV, and we correlate the cosmic ray density with the mean magnetic field strength in the disk and the halo of our galaxy. We find that at E > 1PeV the fluxes depend very strongly on the cosmic-ray composition, whereas at 1-5 GeV the main source of uncertainty is the cosmic-ray spectrum out of the heliosphere. We show that the diffuse flux of galactic neutrinos becomes larger than the conventional atmospheric one at E > 1PeV, but that at all IceCube energies it is 4 times smaller than the atmospheric flux from forward-charm decays.
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